BATH — With a show of hands, Regional School Unit 1 voters on Tuesday approved the line items in a proposed $29 million budget. The Bath Middle School meeting, which drew 38 voters and took about 40 minutes, preceded a June 13 budget validation referendum, which will complete the fiscal 2018 budget approval process. Polling […]

HARPSWELL — The Board of Selectmen on May 25 approved an at-will agreement with a Portland-based company to a pilot a central composting program at the Recycling and Transfer Station. “Ideally, this will really increase the recycling rate,” Phoebe Lyttle of Garbage to Garden told the board, explaining that food waste compromises 40 percent of […]

TOPSHAM — Fewer than 30 voters from School Administrative District 75 on May 25 approved a proposed budget in about as many minutes. Most of the seats at the Orion Center remained empty during the May 25 district budget meeting, the first of two public votes on SAD 75’s fiscal 2018 spending plan. The budget […]

The Brunswick Topsham Memorial Day parade pauses on the Frank J. Wood Bridge Monday, May 29, for the traditional casting of a wreath onto the water by Grand Marshal Alice Johnson and retired U.S. Navy Officer Tim Martel. (Keith Spiro / For The Forecaster)

BRUNSWICK — After the Town Council rejected a compromise to reduce a cut demanded in the School Board’s budget, the board acquiesced Wednesday night and voted 5-4 to trim its budget by another $250,000. The compromise, proposed by Billy Thompson at a May 17 meeting, asked the council to split $500,000 in additional cuts with […]

Arrests 5/12 at 1:30 p.m. Megan Oliver, 27, of Drayton Road, was arrested by Officer Mark Steele on Centre Street on outstanding warrants from another agency, and charges of operating under the influence, violating conditions of release, leaving the scene of an accident and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs. 5/17 at 9:16 p.m. Charles Gates, […]

Arrests 5/19 at 3:12 p.m. Jennifer E. Shannon, 56, of Sea Road, Kennebunk, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Officer Kenneth Bailey on a charge of operating under the influence. 5/21 at 11:26 p.m. Tyler F. Carey, 23, of Broadway, South Portland, was arrested on Old Bath Road by Officer Christopher Balestra on an outstanding […]